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The First World Tsunami Awareness Day is being

observed on 05th November 2016 across the world.
The theme for the year is Effective Education and
Evacuation Drills.
President Pranab Mukherjee has approved the 2%
hike in Dearness Allowance to central government
employees, a move that could benefit 50.68 lakh
employees and 54.24 lakh pensioners.
Bollywood actor Ranveer Singh has been now named
the first Indian ambassador for Switzerland Tourism.
Singh will now be in charge of promoting Switzerland
Tourisms campaign for 2017 Nature wants you
back!
Twitters India and South East Asias Managing
Director Parminder Singh has resigned from the
company. The announcement comes soon after
Twitter India head Rishi Jaitly announced his
departure as well.
China has selected historical-adventure film
Xuanzang, which co-stars Bollywood actor Sonu Sood,
as its official entry for the 89th Academy Awards. The
project is a part of the three-film agreement signed
between India and China.
Government has slapped a nearly 10,000 crore rupee
fine on Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) and its
partners BP and Niko for pumping out gas that flowed
to the Krishna Godavari-D6 Block from an adjoining
field owned by ONGC. The Centre has given RIL a
month to respond. The Oil Ministry, in a notice, to all
the three partners sought 1.47 billion dollars for
producing nearly 338 million British thermal unit in
seven years ended March this year.
India's Private sector lender Yes Bank has launched
Yes Mobile 2.0 its new mobile banking app with
multiple new features and extensive support for
banking transactions on Apple and Android-based
SmartWatches.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated the
first ever International Agro-biodiversity Congress,
IAC in New Delhi on 16th November 2016, which has
been attended by 900 delegates from 60 countries.
In view of Prime Minister Narendra Modis vision of
nurturing entrepreneurship, Confederation of Indian
Industry (CII) has launched a unique platform called
Startup Mentorship Circle to help in connecting
start-ups with the global marketplace.
Odisha Government has signed an MoU with the
Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) for setting
up of four more centres in the State. The new centres
would come up at Angul, Jajpur, Koraput and

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Sambalpur. With this, the number of STPI centres will

rise to eight in the State which is highest in the
country.
Indian Women's hockey team have lifted the Asian
Champions Trophy 2016 in Singapore. In a thrilling
summit clash, India defeated China 2-1.
In Boxing, Manny Pacquiao reclaims the World Boxing
Organisation (WBO) welterweight title for the third
time. The 37-year-old Filipino pugilist, who had
announced his retirement seven months ago, was
declared the winner with unanimous decision after he
defeated American Jessie Vargas in his comeback fight
in Las Vegas, USA.
India has hosted the crucial global tobacco control
conference on 07th November 2016 for the first time,
where it will push for incorporating smokeless
tobacco as an agenda. The 7th Session of the
Conference of Parties to World Health Organisation
Framework Convention on Tobacco Control has
begun at Greater Noida.
The 128th anniversary of Nobel laureate Bharat Ratna
Sir CV Raman has been celebrated on 07th November,
2016. He was born on November 7, 1888 at
Thiruvanaikaval in Tiruchirapalli Tamil Nadu.
Construction major Hindustan Construction Company
(HCC) has became Indias first firm to get debt recast
under RBIs new Scheme for Sustainable Structuring
of Stressed Assets (S4A). The RBI-mandated
Overseeing Committee (OC) under the S4A has
approved HCCs Rs. 5,000-crore debt recast passed by
an ICICI Bank-led joint lender forum in September
2016.

Google Capital, the search giant's venture arm that

invests in growth-stage companies, has changed its
name to 'CapitalG'.
The old GoogleCapital.com domain now forwards to
CapitalG.com, and Google Capital's Twitter account
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has announced that its being retired in favour of a

new @CapitalGTweets account.
India and Sri Lanka have signed an agreement under
which a hotline will be set up between officials of the
two countries to address the fishermen crisis.
Czech Republics Petra Kvitova has won the 2016
WTA Elite Singles Trophy. She defeated Ukrainian
ElinaSvitolina 6-4, 6-2 to grab the title at Zhuhai,
China. Venus Williams was the defending champion
for the title.
The Reserve Bank has appointed M RajeshwarRao as
Executive Director (ED) following G Mahalingams
voluntary retirement from the central bank. As
Executive Director, Rao will look after Department of
Statistics and Information Management, Financial
markets Operations Department and International
Department.
Vice President of India, M. Hamid Ansari has released
a book An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in
India authored by Dr. Shashi Tharoor.
BJP Vice President Avinash Rai Khanna has been
appointed as a member of National Human Rights
Commission (NHRC) with a high-level selection panel
headed by Prime Minister NarendraModi clearing his
name.
The latest Grant Thornton International Business
Report for the July-September quarter has placed
India 2nd on the global scale for business optimism.
Scientists from Indian Institute of Technology
(Kharagpur) claimed to have found evidence
confirming the existence of a mythical Indian river,
Chandrabhaga. This is the second among such
findings. In October 2016, KS Valdiya led expert
committee had found that Saraswati River did exist.
The IIT study aimed to verify this myth.

Henri Kontinen and John Peers have won the ATP

World Tour Masters Doubles title at the BNP Paribas
Masters in Paris. Kontinen and Peers defeated top-

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seeded Frenchmen Pierre-Hugues Herbert and

Nicolas Mahut 6-4, 3-6, 10-6 to claim the title.
India and the United Kingdom have signed two pacts
to boost cordial relations between the two nations.
The pacts were inked during the 3 days visit of
Theresa May, the Prime Minister of the United
Kingdom to India.
The
Union
Government
has
launched
PradhanMantriSurakshitMatritvaAbhiyan to provide
free health check-ups to pregnant women at
government health centres and hospitals.
The Indian army has successfully completed its task of
laying an irrigation pipeline in the Demchok region of
Eastern Ladakh. The project was being conducted
under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural
Employment Guarantee Scheme to link the villages in
the region with a hot spring.
Vinod Rai has been appointed as the Chairman of
Fund Trustee and Advisory Commission of Kerala. He
will be entrusted with the responsibility to ensure
that the funds of the Kerala Infrastructure Investment
Fund Board (KIIFB) are properly utilised and the
interest of investors is protected.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has issued the
Clarifications on hedging for External Commercial
Borrowings (ECB). The Clarifications were issued
under section 10(4) and 11(1) of the Foreign
Exchange Management Act, 1999.
Well-known Gandhian and President of Tunisia's
Ennahdha Party, Sheikh RachedGhannouchi was
among four prominent personalities conferred with
the prestigious 39th Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation
Awards for 2016.
Bank of Baroda has appointed Ratnesh Kumar as
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of its
wholly-owned investment banking subsidiary, BoB
Capital Markets Ltd.
The British government has announced that, 4 rupeedenominated bonds worth of 600 million pounds are
expected to be listed in London in the next three
months.
NASAs Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) Mission on
05th November 2016 has recorded the Guinness
world record for highest altitude fix of a Global
Positioning System (GPS) signal at 70000 kilometers
above the surface of the Earth.
Billionaire-turned-politician Donald Trump has been
elected the 45th President of the United States. The
Republican party candidate secured the support of
276 of the 538 members of the electoral college,
beating Democratic party rival Hillary Clinton.

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President-elect Trump will formally take charge of the

Oval Office on January 20, 2017, dubbed as the
'Inauguration Day'.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi talked about fighting
corruption and black money during his address to the
nation. In a major step to check black money, the
prime minister announced demonetization of Rs 500
and 1000 currency notes from 8th November
midnight. The RBI has issued new series of notes for
500 rupees and 2000 rupees denomination with
improved features and newer sizes.
The
Centre
has
decided
to
open
PradhanMantriKaushalVikas
Kendra
in every
Parliamentary Constituency to impart skill training to
the people and make them employable.
The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee has
inaugurated the Diamond Jubilee Celebrations of
Export Credit Guarantee Corporation of India Limited
(ECGC) on November 08, 2016 in New Delhi.
Indias first liquefied natural gas-driven bus has been
launched in Kerala. Union Petroleum and Natural Gas
Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and Kerala Chief
Minister Pinarayi Vijayan jointly flagged off the first
pilot run eco-friendly bus.
Acclaimed Indian American fiction author Amitav
Ghosh, 60, has been named for 2016 Tata Literature
Live! Lifetime Achievement Award, in recognition of
his outstanding contribution to the Indian literary
space.
UCO Bank has announced that it would raise Rs.271
crore from Life Insurance Corporation of India in
preferential allotment of equal shares at Rs.37.74
apiece.
Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved $48
million loan to help Assam for improve power
distribution.
Corporation Bank has signed a memorandum of
understanding (MoU) with the Indian Army on the
defence salary package.
Janet Reno, the first woman to be appointed as
Attorney General of US, passed away as a
consequence of Parkinsons disease. She was 78.
Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has announced
that the new series of 500 and 2,000 rupees notes has
been available in banks and post-offices from 10th
November 2016 and assured that there will be
adequate availability of the new notes in the coming
days.

ATMs in the country have been also dispense

banknotes of Rs 50 denomination from 10th

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November 2016. Currently, the lowest denomination

note a customer can get at an ATM is Rs 100.
The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare J P
Nadda has launched Healthy India Initiative magazine
and No More Tension mobile App for the promotion
of health and to strengthen the health
communications programmes.
The Union Ministry of Human Resource Development
(HRD) has launched Smart India Hackathon 2017. It is
the worlds largest digital national building initiative.
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat has
conferred the Uttarakhand Ratna award on his arch
rival and former chief minister Narayan Dutt Tiwari
on the occasion of the state's 17th foundation day
(10th November 2016).
The 1st International Agro-biodiversity Congress that
was held in New Delhi from 6 November to 9
November 2016 concluded with the adoption of Delhi
Declaration on Agrobiodiversity Management. The
event saw the participation of 900 participants from
60 countries.
In a big loss to Twitter, the companys Chief Operating
Officer (COO) Adam Bain who was in charge of the
micro-blogging websites revenue business, has leave
the company.

China has launched a navigation satellite, which will

conduct in-orbit experiments using pulsar detectors
to demonstrate new technologies.
Renowned theatre personality and Padma Shri, Prof
Raj Bisaria is all set to weave another feather in his
cap with the Madhya Pradesh government honouring
him with its prestigious 'KalidasSamman' national
award for 2015-16 for achievement in theatre.
Gurumoorthy Mahalingam took charge as Full-Time
Member of SEBI. He will be responsible for leading
the Integrated Surveillance Department, Investment
Management Department, Enforcement Department
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(ED), Foreign Portfolio Investors and Custodians,

Collective Investment Schemes, and Department of
Economic and Policy Analysis, among others.
Maharashtra government has signed an agreement
with Canada to implement a joint action plan on
urban infrastructure development in the state.
Bhaskar Bhat, the non-executive and nonindependent director on the board of Tata Chemicals
Ltd, has resigned with immediate effect.
Former world number one Roger Federer has won the
Stefan Edberg Sportsmanship Award at the ATP
awards for the 12th time in his career.
Mumbai's Western Railways women's team has won
the 33rd Indian Oil Servo Surjit Hockey Tournament.
The team defeated Haryana XI 4-2 in the title clash
played at the Olympian Surjit Hockey Stadium in
Jalandhar, Punjab.
India has signed a historic civilian nuclear deal with
Japan during the annual bilateral summit held in
Tokyo. India is the first non-member of the nonproliferation treaty (NPT) to have signed such a deal
with Japan.
World Pneumonia Day has been observed across the
world on 12th November, 2016. The day is annually
observed to raise awareness about pneumonia, the
worlds leading killer of children under the age of five;
promote interventions to protect against, prevent and
treat pneumonia; and generate action to combat
pneumonia. This year theme is, "Keep the Promise,
Stop Pneumonia Now".

11 year old Pune girl Anvita Prashant Telang has been

named national winner of the Doodle 4 Google
contest. The sixth standard student from Vibgyor High
School in Balewadi area was chosen for her Doodle
submission on the theme titled If I could teach
anyone anything, it would be.
TAFE, the worlds third largest tractor maker, in
collaboration with the Rajasthan government, is

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setting up a Centre of Excellence JFarm Rajasthan

and a Custom Hiring Centre in six zones in
Rajasthan at a total outlay of Rs.970 crore.
Virat Kohli has became the second Indian Test skipper
to be out hit wicket since Lala Amarnath in 1949 after
his foot disturbed the stumps in the ongoing Rajkot
Test against England. Batting on 40, Kohli went well
inside the crease to pull a short ball from spinner Adil
Rashid when he dislodged the bails with his foot and
got out.
Leonard Cohen, the baritone-voiced Canadian singersong writer who seamlessly blended spirituality and
sexuality in songs like Hallelujah, Suzanne and Bird on
a Wire, has died at age 82.
Indian womens carrom team defeated Sri Lanka to
win the gold at the seventh World carrom
championship in Birmingham (UK).
Chinas Vice-Minister for Public Security has been
elected the President of the International Criminal
Police Organization (Interpol). MengHongwei is the
first Chinese official to take the post.
Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman
and Bhutan's Economic Affairs Minister Tengye
Lyonpo Lekey Dorji signed agreement on trade for
better bilateral relations the agreement in New Delhi.
The first agreement on trade and commerce between
both countries was signed in 1972.
India will preside the eighth edition of the Conference
of Parties (COP) to WHO Framework Convention on
Tobacco Control (FCTC) which will be held in
Switzerland's Geneva in 2018.
Narinder Batra has become the first Indian to be
elected the President of the International Hockey
Federation (FIH). He was voted to the top post by an
overwhelming margin during the penultimate day of
the 45th FIH Congress in Dubai.
Vandana Katariya will captain Indian senior women's
hockey team in the Test Series against Australia to be
played at Melbourne, Australia from November 23 to
November 30. Defender Sunita Lakra will be the vicecaptain of the 18-member squad.
Australia will host the 2018 Invictus Games for
wounded military personnel, Britain's Prince Harry
announced. More than 500 serving and former
personnel from 17 nations will compete in the multisports competition in Sydney, Australia.
The India-China Joint Training Exercise "Hand in
Hand 2016" is scheduled to be held in Pune from
November 15-27. This would mark the 6th annual
joint training exercise between the Indian Army and
the People's Liberation Army of China.

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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved

a three-year $12 billion loan program for Egypt, the
largest such package to a Middle East nation.
On 14th November, Childrens Day has been
celebrated every year to mark the birth anniversary
of our first Prime Minister Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru.
The World Diabetes Day has been observed across the
world on 14 November. The theme for this year is
"Eyes on Diabetes". World Diabetes Day is an annual
campaign, led by the International Diabetes
Federation (IDF) and its member associations.
Private sector lender YES Bank has appointed Amresh
Acharya as Group President and Head of Global Indian
Banking.
Federal Bank, India's major commercial bank in the
private sector has received Reserve Bank of India
(RBI)'s permission to open its first international
branch at the Dubai International Financial Centre.
The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
Forum's Week started at Lima in Peru from 14th
November 2016 bringing together leaders of world's
largest economies, businessmen and investors.
Fortune magazine has named the co-founder and CEO
of the biggest social networking site Facebook, Mark
Zuckerberg as Business Person of the Year, 2016.
An Indian-origin man from South Africa was awarded
the Global Citizen Award for his "innovative and
visionary" contribution to the global community.
Imtiaz Sooliman founded the internationally-lauded
Gift of the Givers Foundation, which is Africa's largest
disaster relief organisation.
Israel President Reuven Rivlin arrived in Mumbai on
November 14th on a six-day visit to India to further
strengthen bilateral ties. He has meet Prime Minister
Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister Sushma
Swaraj.
Lyricist-writer Gulzar will be honoured with 2016
Tata Literature Live! Poet Laureate Award. The award
will be presented to Gulzar, an Oscar and Grammy
Award winner, at the inaugural of the festival on
November 17.
Swiss major Molinari Rail will set up a manufacturing
and assembly centre for auxiliary power units for
diesel locomotives in India by next year.
Mahindra and Mahindra appointed Pawan Goenka as
Managing Director Anand Mahindra was redesignated
as executive chairman.
Hollywood actor Jackie Chan received his little gold
statuette, an honorary Oscar for his decades of work
in film on November 13th at the annual Governors
Awards.

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Mauritius Prime Minister Anerood Jugnauth is set to

visit Mumbai on November 18, 2016, where he is
expected to discuss various issues, including one that
provides a subsidy for Bollywood films shot there,
with the Maharashtra government.
Aditi Ashok is an Indian professional golfer who has
scripted history on November 13th as she became the
first Indian woman to win a Ladies European Tour
title by clinching the Hero Womens Indian Open.
The moon arrived at its closest point to the Earth
since 1948. The 'supermoon' reached its brightest in
Asia on 14th November 2016. The Moon was closest,
only 2 lakh 21 thousand 524 miles (356509 km) away
at 11:21 GMT.

To oversee recalibration of ATM machines after the

country introduced new banknotes to replace old 500
rupee and 1,000 rupee notes, RBI will set up a task
force under Deputy Governor SS Mundra.
President Pranab Mukherjee on 14th November 2016
has inaugurated the India International Trade Fair at
Pragati Maidan, New delhi which will see
participation of over 150 companies from 27
countries. This year's edition of the mega trade fair
with 'Digital India' theme is being held between
November 14-27.
As part of its efforts to continue the global transition
to zero-and-low carbon energy sources, the United
States (US) has announced two financial projects
worth 95 million US dollars for India.
Thiruvananthapuram has been termed as the
country's breast cancer capital, with cases at a record
high of 40 per lakh of population. 9 lakh women are
diagnosed with breast cancer every year.
Meghalaya has became the first state to start India's
first Cherry Blossom Festival, which is widely
celebrated in Japan.
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Australia announced an online program for its preschools to learn foreign languages, including Hindi
from 2017.
The Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov gave
resignation of his cabinet after his partys candidate
Tsetska Tsacheva, failed to win the countrys
presidential election on November 14, 2016.
Indian golfer SSP Chawrasia clinched the $1 million
(Rs. 6.8 crore) Resorts World Manila Masters in the
Philippines, his first ever Asian Tour title outside
India.
Mota Singh, an Indian-origin Sikh, who became UKs
first-ever ethnic minority judge to sit on the English
Bench wearing a turban instead of a horse-hair wig,
died. He was 86.
The International Day for Tolerance is observed
globally on 16th November every year. The Day aims
at educating masses about the need for tolerance in
society and helping them understand the negative
effects of intolerance.
The government has announced that it will present
the Union Budget for 2017-18 on February 1, 2017
and the budget session may begin in January, 2017.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the
Government of India on 15th November 2016 signed
a 500 million US dollar loan to build a 9.8 km long
road bridge across the Ganges River. This will be
Indias longest river bridge.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has launched a key
programme to provide free electricity connection to
about 50 lakh households above the poverty line. The
chief minister launched Har Ghar Bijli Lagataar
programme, which was key development thrust for
the Assembly polls.
The Defence Research and Development Organisation
(DRDO) has successfully tested its unmanned combat
aerial vehicle, Rustom-2. The medium-altitude long
endurance (MALE) category vehicle met all the
expectations during the first flight.
Netherlands-based doctors have performed the firstever brain implant on a 58-year-old woman paralysed
by Lou Gehrig's disease, enabling her to communicate
in day-to-day life via a speech computer.
Debbie Hockley has been elected as president of New
Zealand Cricket, becoming the first woman to hold
that role in the 122-year history of the sport's
national governing body.
International Chess Master Padmini Rout has won the
National Women Premier Chess Championship for the
third time.

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